Article Review: Everyone Must Not Get Stoned

Article Review: Everyone Must Not Get StonedProblem Outlined in the ArticleThe United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) conducted a workplace drug abuse survey on 14 different industries including the foodservice industry. According to SAMHSA’s findings, the foodservice industry was classified as being the third, which is an improvement since the last survey that put the industry first place with a 16.5% employees drug usage (5.3% employees higher than the recent result); however, the results are still very alarming. This makes everyone look at coworkers differently.

The problem is that 38.5% of employees surveyed claim that their workplace does not provide them with information regarding alcohol and drug usage. “Ironically, it's in this area where this industry maintains a hands-off policy. The NRA's Educational Foundation provides information on how servers can deal with customers who are intoxicated, but it does not offer internal programs to assist restaurant workers with such problems” (Sanson, 1999).

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Implications of the Article to Employees, Employers, and SocietyAndRamifications if the Problem is Not AddressedThe implications of alcohol and or drug abuse in the workplace are high. Not only it costs the nation as well as the industry billions of dollars, it also reduces productivity, which weakens the country’s and or the industry’s competitive advantage while jeopardizing workers’ and customers’ safety. In addition to all this, drug and or alcohol abuse also causes employees and their families disastrous economic and emotional losses unless the problem is addressed effectively. If the issue of alcohol and or drug abuse is not addressed and dealt with within the workplace society as a whole will continue to be effected in a negative manner thus hurting the economy not improving it.

Benefits of Resolving the ProblemResolving this problem can help maintain a drug free workplace and helps strengthen the...